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LogMeIn Buys Zamurai To Add Mobile Whiteboardng To Join.Me
Jun 04, 1:55PM
LogMeIn has made one more acquisition to build out the features of its online collaboration and meeting app join.me: it has bought Zamurai, a San Francisco-based startup that had built a popular whiteboard app for the iPad. Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed but LogMeIn says that the deal actually closed in late 2014. The app, which had won several distinctions in… Read MoreDiabetes Management App One Drop Gets $8 Million In Series A Funding To Build Out The Platform
Jun 04, 1:45PM
One Drop, an app for diabetes management, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by RRE, with participation from Box Group, Capital Factory and existing investors LAUNCH and Neu Ventures. The funding will help One Drop to develop the software, create new features and add hardware for the app as it continues to grow its network of users. The app created by Jeff Dachis, co-founder of… Read MoreU.K. State Surveillance Powers Challenged Under Human Rights Law
Jun 04, 1:40PM
The U.K. government is facing a legal challenge to surveillance legislation that was rushed through parliament last year. At the time the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill was criticized for granting the government overly broad and draconian powers to retain digital comms data — and for the lack of parliamentary time afforded for proper scrutiny. Read MoreTado's Smart AC Control Makes Any Air Conditioner Smart
Jun 04, 1:10PM
While smart thermostats have been around for years, they typically have only been able to interface with a home’s central heating or cooling system which are much more expensive than portable units. Today, Tado is launching the Smart AC Control, the world’s first device to make any remote-controlled air conditioner smart. Tado’s device interfaces with over 85% of the… Read MoreLine Moves Into Group Calling With Popcorn Buzz, Lets You Talk With Up To 200 People For Free
Jun 04, 12:40PM
Line, the messaging upstart out of Japan, is adding group calling into its ever-expanding web of services. Popcorn Buzz, as the app is called, is entering a crowded market for group calling services — they include dozens of conference calling businesses, along with Skype, Google, Kakao Talk and more. The twist (or gimmick, if you’re a bit more cynical) here is that the service… Read MoreApple Watch In-Store Retail Sales Begin In Two Weeks
Jun 04, 12:37PM
Apple will begin selling some models of the Apple Watch starting in two weeks, according to a press release from the company today. Also, on June 26, we’ll see Watches go on sale in seven more countries, including Italy, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. All orders for Apple Watch which were placed in May will ship to customers within the next two weeks,… Read MoreThis Data Visualization Tool Shines A Light On Money And Politics
Jun 04, 11:53AM
Solomon Kahn, who runs Paperless Post’s data team during the day, is building (and crowdfunding) a data visualization tool for U.S. political campaign contributions — to make it easier to follow the money to identify any corrupting influences on federal politicians. Read MoreAlibaba Invests $194M Into China Business News To Build A Financial Data Platform
Jun 04, 11:50AM
Alibaba, the Chinese internet giant, is currently focused on investing internationally to grow its business, but is also continuing to build out operations at home. In the latest move, it has invested $193.6 million (RMB1.2 billion) into China Business News to create a new financial data and information services company. “The era of Data Technology is here and it will surpass the… Read MoreBolt Threads Comes Out Of Stealth With $40 Million In Funding To Make Clothing From Material Found In Spider Webs
Jun 04, 11:30AM
Do you like spiders? Do you like the idea of wearing spider webs? Well, you’ll soon be able to wear clothing made from the same material as spider webs if a new startup called Bolt Threads gets its way. The startup plans to make clothing that is stronger than steel and softer than Merino wool by manipulating the genes of bacteria to get them to produce the same silken threads that… Read MoreLaunchDarkly, A Startup That Helps Companies Soft-Launch Features, Raises $2.6M
Jun 04, 11:00AM
Whenever many large technology have a new feature they want to test, they roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. That those companies get feedback on the feature and iron out any bugs, and also roll back the changes quickly if anything is wrong or if the users don’t like it. But that requires teams of people to maintain those tools, and smaller startups… Read MoreIndia's Zopper, An On-Demand Marketplace For Bulky Items, Scores $20M Series B
Jun 04, 10:51AM
Hyperlocal e-commerce services, which deliver products to customers within hours, are a hot sector in India right now. Zopper is the latest to score a significant round of funding. Its $20 million series B round from Tiger Global and Nirvana Venture Advisors. Read MoreHey Москва! The TechCrunch Mini Moscow Meetup And Pitch-Off Is On Tonight!
Jun 04, 10:09AM
привет (hi!) TechCrunch is back in Moscow! TONIGHT we’re holding a ‘Mini Meetup’ in conjunction with the Strelka Institute. We’ll hold a Pitch-Off competition consisting of one-minute pitches with an assembled jury. The meetup starts at 8pm and goes until 10pm / 10.30pm, roughly. It will be fun! I’ll be attending and looking for startups and investors to… Read More"Slack For Data" App Chartcube Launches On Desktop And iPhone
Jun 04, 9:47AM
Collaborating on data is burdensome and often results in increasingly unwieldy email chains loaded with multiple PowerPoint and Excel attachments. A startup called Chartcube wants to make sharing and editing charts as easy as texting. Read MoreGitHub Expands To Japan, Its First Office Outside The U.S.
Jun 04, 9:44AM
GitHub has opened an office in Japan, its first location outside of the U.S., as the bids to gain a foothold for its online code repository in the lucrative enterprise software market in the country. Read MoreYandex Launches Yandex.Radio, A Curated Free Music Service For Russian Users
Jun 04, 9:33AM
Amid reports that Russia will be one of the first countries to get access to the new music service that Apple is reportedly launching next week, Russian search giant Yandex is enhancing its own. Today it announced Yandex.Radio, an ad-supported streaming music service that provides around 100 ready-made “stations” to users organised around moods and themes, initially available… Read MoreReport: Xiaomi Now World's Second Biggest Seller Of Wearables Behind Only Fitbit
Jun 04, 8:58AM
In a sign that the market for wearable devices remains nascent, China’s Xiaomi has risen from nowhere to become the industry’s second largest company responsible for one-quarter of all shipments in the first quarter of this year. Read MoreMobile AdTech Platform S4M Secures $8M From Entrepreneur Venture And Bpifrance
Jun 04, 8:52AM
French startup S4M (Solutions for Mobile) has raised a $8 million Series A round of funding from Entrepreneurs Venture and Bpifrance digital fund to grow its mobile performance technologies globally. Until recently they were self funded and, they say, profitable since day one. It has an analytics and programmatic mobile demand platform which applies so-called ‘intelligent’… Read More
Indian Commercial Real Estate Startup Propstack Lands $3M Led By Daily Mail Group
Jun 04, 8:03AM
The boom around property industry in India has gotten more momentum today after Propstack, a Mumbai-based company that manages a range of data around commercial real estate, landed a $3 million Series A investment. Read MoreDatasift Expands Its Reach With New Pulsar Deal To Make Facebook Topic Data Bigger
Jun 04, 7:50AM
Datasift, which has raised a total of $77.9 million to date, is partnering with social analytics platform Pulsar to make anonymized Facebook topic data available to any brands, government, charities and businesses. Last year Datasift did a Secondary Market raise of $6.2M from Upfront Ventures. This new deal shows Datasift is pushing hard to become a mainstay of the ad agency world. Because… Read MoreOutlier Dictionary Is A Savior For Overwhelmed Chinese Language Students
Jun 04, 5:46AM
Learning Chinese as an adult is like playing a game of chicken with your brain. When I was 26, I spent nine months in a Mandarin program and every time I sat down with a new stack of flashcards, I wondered how many characters would get shoved out of my memory to make room for new ones. Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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